My grandparents can be good fun. They are retired, so they don't work
anymore. My grandfather is 68 and my grandmother is 67, but they are not too
old to be active. They exercise by playing golf and they go out for meals
and to the theater. Sometimes they take me out, too. We have a good time. They
also go on great holidays. Last year, they went to China and walked along the
Great Wall!

Sometimes, my grandparents like to criticize me. They think that children
today have an easy life. Life was very different when they were young and there
are many things about my life that they do not understand. They tell me, over
and over, how they had to start work at 16. They know that I will go on to
university and won't be getting a job until I am 22! They also think that I
have too many possessions, such as mobile phones, computers and PSPs. When they
were young, they did not have anything like that. What they do not realize is
that they cannot compare children at present time. They had the same kinds of
things as the rest of people of their age, so do I. It would be very strange if
I only had the possessions that they had when they were my age.

6.My grandparents sometimes criticize me. One reason is that children
today have an easy life.

A.T

B.F

答案：A

7.Grandparents don't work anymore because they are tired.

A.T

B.F

答案：B

8.Grandparents had the same kinds of things as people of their age when
they were young.

A.T

B.F

答案：A

9.The sentence "but they are not too old to be active" means
that they are old, so they are not active.

A.T

B.F

答案：B

10.My grandparents don't understand many things about my life.

A.T

B.F

答案：A

A characteristic of American culture that has become almost a tradition is
to respect the self-made man - the man who has risen to the top through his own
efforts, usually beginning by working with his hands. While the leader in
business or industry or the college professor occupies a higher social position
and commands greater respect in the community than the common laborer or even
the skilled factory worker, he may take pains to point out that his father
started life in America as a farmer or laborer of some sort.

This attitude toward manual (体力的) labor is now still seen in many aspects of American
life. One is invited to dinner at a home that is not only comfortably but even
luxuriously (豪华地) furnished and in which there is every
evidence of the fact that the family has been able to afford foreign travel,
expensive hobbies, and college education for the children; yet the hostess
probably will cook the dinner herself, will serve it herself and will wash
dishes afterward; furthermore,the
dinner will not consist merely of something quickly and easily assembled from
contents of various cans and a cake or a pie bought at the nearby bakery. On
the contrary, the hostess usually takes pride in careful preparation of special
dishes. A professional may talk about washing the car, digging in his
flowerbeds, painting the house. His wife may even help with these things, just
as he often helps her with the dishwashing. The son who is away at college may wait
on table and wash dishes for his living, or during the summer he may work
with a construction gang on a highway in order to pay for his education.

1）、From Para. 1, we know that in America
_________.

A.people tend to have a high opinion of the self-made man

B.people can always rise to the top through their won efforts

C.college professors win great respect from common workers

D.people feel painful to mention their fathers as labors

答案：A

2）、According to the passage, the hostess cooks
dinner herself mainly because _________.

16.It took me a long time to ________ the
disappointment of failing the exam.

A.get over

B.get up

C.get into

D.get down

答案：A

17.Do you still remember ________?

A.that your father said

B.what your father said

C.did your father say that

D.what did your father say

答案：B

18.The grey building is the place where the workers live, and the white
building is the place where the spare parts _____.

A.are producing

B.are produced

C.produced

D.being produced

答案：B

19.The workers are busy ____models for the exhibition.

A.to make

B.with making

C.being making

D.making

答案：D

20.When Lily came home at 5 p.m. yesterday, her mother _____dinner in the
kitchen.

A.cooked

B.was cooking

C.cooks

D.has cooked

答案：B

四、完型填空

For thousands of years, people thought of glass as something beautiful to
look at. Only recently do they come to __21__ it as something looked through.
Stores __22__ their goods in large glass windows. Glass bottles and jars that
hold food and drink allow us __23__ the contents. Glass is used to make
spectacles, microscopes, telescopes, and __24__ very useful and necessary
objects, and glasses, are used by people who can not see perfectly or by people
who want to protect their eyes __25__ bright light.

21.

A.think of

B.to see

C.display

D.from

E.many other

答案：A

22.

A.think of

B.to see

C.display

D.from

E.many other

答案：C

23.

A.think of

B.to see

C.display

D.from

E.many other

答案：B

24.

A.think of

B.to see

C.display

D.from

E.many other

答案：E

25.

A.think of

B.to see

C.display

D.from

E.many other

答案：D

五、英译汉

26.I'll be waiting for you at the library this time tomorrow.

答案：我明天这时候在图书馆等你。

27.I feel satisfied with my life.

答案：我对生活感到满意。

28.I have a pain in my back.

答案：我的背疼。

29.He has taught English in this university ever since he moved to this
city.